Analysis of He put the Belt around my life
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
He put the Belt around my life
I heard the Buckle snap—
And turned away, imperial,
My Lifetime folding up—
Deliberate, as a Duke would do
A Kingdom's Title Deed—
Henceforth, a Dedicated sort—
A Member of the Cloud.
Yet not too far to come at call—
And do the little Toils
That make the Circuit of the Rest—
And deal occasional smiles
To lives that stoop to notice mine—
And kindly ask it in—
Whose invitation, know you not
For Whom I must decline?
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| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11010111 110101 01010100 11101 010010111 010101 11010001 010101 11111111 010101 11010101 0101001 11111101 010110 1010111 111101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 456 |
| Words | 87 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8, 8 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 174 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 43 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 18, 2023
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